This is a self-contained text on abstract algebra for senior undergraduate and senior graduate students, which gives complete and comprehensive... coverage of the topics usually taught at this level. The book is divided into five parts. The first part contains fundamental information such as an informal introduction to sets, number systems, matrices, and determinants. The second part deals with groups. The third part treats rings and modules. The fourth part is concerned with field theory. Much of the material in parts II, III, and IV forms the core syllabus of a course in abstract algebra. The fifth part goes on to treat some additional topics not usually taught at the undergraduate level, such as the Wedderburn-Artin theorem for semisimple artinian rings, Noether-Lasker theorem, the Smith-Normal form over a PID, finitely generated modules over a PID and their applications to rational and Jordan canonical forms and the tensor products of modules. Throughout, complete proofs have been given for all theorems without glossing over significant details or leaving important theorems as exercises. In addition, the book contains many examples fully worked out and a variety of problems for practice and challenge. Solution to the odd-numbered problems are provided at the end of the book to encourage the student in problem solving. This new edition contains an introduction to categories and functors, a new chapter on tensor products and a discussion of the new (1993) approach to the celebrated Noether-Lasker theorem. In addition, there are over 150 new problems and examples.

This survey of fundamental algebraic structures employs techniques applicable to mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science. Topics... include relations between groups and sets, the fundamental theorem of Galois theory, and the results and methods of abstract algebra in terms of number theory, geometry, and noncommutative and homological algebra. Solutions. 2006 edition.

Basic Accounting Concepts, Principles, and Procedures Volumes 1 and 2 together provide the student and self-study user the most complete introduction to... basic accounting available, at a price that ensures outstanding value. Together, both volumes and included disks provide a package that contains all the individual resources that are typically required of a student in a first-course accounting class, plus extra content that serves both as enrichment and as a practical resource. The two volumes together include: * Academic-quality texts with comprehensive content explained in an easy-to-understand, step-by step style * Templates that provide a printable unlimited supply of accounting paper including worksheets, general journal, special journals, and ledger accounts * Practice sets for both merchandising and service businesses * End of chapter reviews with hundreds of review questions and reinforcement problems * Detailed solutions to questions, problems, and practice sets * Cumulative practice tests with solutions and review guidance * Internet exercises to guide the reader in building an Accounting Resources folder. Supplmental Content: Special tips and practical help, such as a checklist for accounting software, what to do when you cannot balance the checkbook (bank reconciliation) and accounting ethics guidelines; comprehensive basic math review, beginning at the most elementary level and continuing through decimals, percentages, signed numbers, order of operations, fractions, and basic algebra, all with problems and solutions; alternative recording techniques and error correction methods. Volume 1 begins by introducing the reader to essential business concepts and business types. This is followed by an overview of the accounting process and in-depth training in transaction analysis. This approach makes it much easier for the reader to understand the procedures in a basic accounting system, particularly the use of debits and credits, than with traditional texts. After this preparation, the text explains the essential elements and procedures of a basic accounting system: chart of accounts, debits/credits, journal, ledger and ledger accounts, posting process, trial balance, and preparation of financial statements from trial balance. The final section of the book provides a comprehensive introduction to corporate accounting. This includes an explanation of the corporate entity, corporate stock transactions, stockholder equity changes, and corporate financial statements.

Basic Accounting Concepts, Principles, and Procedures Volumes 1 and 2 together provide the student and self-study user the most complete introduction to... basic accounting available, at a price that ensures outstanding value. Together, both volumes and included disks provide a package that contains all the individual resources that are typically required of a student in a first-course accounting class, plus extra content that serves both as enrichment and as a practical resource. The materials include: *Academic-quality texts with comprehensive content explained in an easy-to-understand, step-by step style. *Templates that provide an unlimited supply of printable accounting paper including worksheets, general journal, special journals, and ledger accounts. *Practice sets for both merchandising and service businesses. *End of chapter reviews with hundreds of review questions and reinforcement problems. *Detailed solutions to questions, problems, and practice sets. *Cumulative practice tests with solutions and review guidance Internet exercises to guide the reader in building an Accounting Resources folder. Supplemental Content: Special tips and practical help, such as a checklist for accounting software, what to do when you cannot balance the checkbook (bank reconciliation) and accounting ethics guidelines; comprehensive basic math review, beginning at the most elementary level and continuing through decimals, percentages, signed numbers, order of operations, fractions, and basic algebra, all with problems and solutions; alternative recording techniques and error correction methods. Volume 2, like volume 1, is a complete self-study text that provides problems, self-tests, solutions, and unlimited accounting paper for all problems and practice sets in the book. Volume 2 emphasizes the completion of the accounting cycle and the application of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) to key accounts. The completion of the accounting cycle is presented for both service and merchandising companies. The reader here has the ability to select among full treatments of frequently used different merchandising procedures (periodic, perpetual, and different worksheet methods), an option not usually available in most introductory accounting books. Following completion of merchandising operations, the focus shifts to principles and procedures as they apply to key account types (cash, receivables, merchandise inventory, fixed assets, and current liabilities) and the internal control procedures relating to each. Payroll procedures and payroll recording keeping are included. The book concludes its introduction to basic accounting with a discussion of financial statement analysis using trends and financial ratios, including a forthright discussion of GAAP strengths and weaknesses. The content also includes methods of financial reporting fraud and important financial warning signs.

This book is not a slimmed-down Accounting for Lawyers casebook, but a book especially designed as an auxiliary book for other courses that draw on... accounting. It is brief, inexpensive, and gives students a plain English, sometimes even humorous, introduction to the basics of accounting and to the financial concepts of present value and expected value. It allows students to learn the essential accounting concepts outside of class so professors can spend more of valuable class time focusing on the core concepts of a course. The chapters are short and modular, so professors can assign as much or as little as students need to know for a course.

This clear and up-to-date introduction to Administrative Law, written specifically for the paralegal, is a straightforward text that explains how... administrative agencies are created, how they are structured, and how they function. Classroom tested through three editions, Basic Administrative Law for Paralegals, Fourth Edition

Enjoy the aerobatics experience with this complete guide from national champions who tell you not only how to perform the maneuvers, but why the... airplane behaves as it does.

Enjoy the aerobatics experience with this complete guide from national champions who tell you not only how to perform the maneuvers, but why the... airplane behaves as it does.

Basic Algebra and Advanced Algebra systematically develop concepts and tools in algebra that are vital to every mathematician, whether pure or applied,... aspiring or established. Together, the two books give the reader a global view of algebra and its role in mathematics as a whole. The presentation includes blocks of problems that introduce additional topics and applications to science and engineering to guide further study. Many examples and hundreds of problems are included, along with a separate 90-page section giving hints or complete solutions for most of the problems.

This book is a revised and expanded new edition of the first four chapters of Shafarevich’s well-known introductory book on algebraic geometry.... Besides correcting misprints and inaccuracies, the author has added plenty of new material, mostly concrete geometrical material such as Grassmannian varieties, plane cubic curves, the cubic surface, degenerations of quadrics and elliptic curves, the Bertini theorems, and normal surface singularities.

Volume II of a pair of classic texts — and standard references for a generation — this book comprises all of the subjects of first-year graduate... algebra. In addition to the immediate introduction and constant use of categories and functors, it revisits many topics from Volume I with greater depth. 1989 edition.

Volume I of a pair of classic texts — and standard references for a generation — this book is the work of an expert algebraist who taught at Yale... for two decades. Volume I covers all undergraduate topics, including groups, rings, modules, Galois theory, polynomials, linear algebra, and associative algebra. 1985 edition.

This comprehensive resource is designed to explain how statistics are computed and applied in health care settings. The hands-on method requires you to... think through a problem and choose the appropriate data to apply. Detailed examples and numerous practice opportunities present a step-by-step learning path that encourages mastery of concepts.